Understanding and Supporting Jews and Muslims in your Nonprofit
As you work to create a more inclusive, understanding organization that tackles difficult Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) conversations, it is critical to intentionally expand these conversations to include Jews and Muslims. Jewish and Muslim religious practices and holidays are often not widely understood or recognized, and thus Jews and Muslims often may feel isolated in their place of work or as volunteers and donors. As minority groups who are subjected to harmful stereotypes, discrimination, and violent acts of hate, it is critical that nonprofits understand and proactively work to combat the dangers of islamophobia and antisemitism.
Here in Kansas City, both the Jewish and Muslim communities have experienced deadly acts of hate, and also experience prejudice on a regular basis.
This joint presentation will cover Jewish and Muslim religious observances, Islamophobia, and contemporary antisemitism so that nonprofit professionals can better understand and support their Jewish and Muslim staff, clients, donors, and volunteers. Attendees will leave with a fuller understanding of Jews, Muslims, and how to be an ally to both communities.
This is a program of the Effective Nonprofit Series.
Presenters:
Mahnaz Shabbir is the president of Shabbir Advisors, an integrated management consulting company focusing on strategic planning, feasibility studies, marketing plans, public relations and diversity training. She received her BBA and MBA from University of Missouri-Kansas City. She serves on the boards of Truman Medical Centers, Crescent Peace Society, CRES, Kansas City Interfaith Council, Boys Scouts of America, Kansas University Academic Center Advancement Board; Overland Park Police Chief’s Independent Citizens Advisory Board Regarding Racial Profiling (chair), a member of the International Women’s Forum and is past president of the Heartland Muslim Council. In 2005, then Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Mahnaz to the REACH Health Care Foundation, community advisory committee, a $100 million foundation.
Prior to forming her own company, Shabbir was the V.P for Strategic Planning and Business Development at Carondelet Health, a Catholic health care system in Kansas City. She had been with the organization for over 18 years. In this capacity, Shabbir planned $40 million projects like the four story medical mall at Saint Joseph Health Center. She has a BBA and a MBA from the University of Missouri- KC.
Shabbir is currently on the faculty at Avila University teaching diversity in the workplace and also has been on the faculty at Park University teaching classes in health care administration and Baker University teaching classes on management.
Sarah Markowitz is the Assistant Director of Education and Programs for the Jewish Community Relations Bureau|AJC. Originally from California, she earned her M.A. in War and Society from Chapman University in 2020, her thesis explored Jews’ reactions to pogroms perpetrated by their Lithuanian neighbors in Lithuania in June 1941. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University, paired with minors in Jewish Studies, International Relations, and Classics & Archaeology. In the past she has worked at AJC’s Los Angeles Regional Office, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
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Date and Time
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
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Fees/Admission
Members Only
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Contact Information
Emily Hane, Director of Learning
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